Charles Hamilton Houston Quotes

#1. The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity ... is to an incalculable extent a history of error.

Frank Kermode

#2. The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#3. New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to.

David Toop

#4. I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.

Michael Aspel

#5. I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.

Kristin Kreuk

#6. A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#7. Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

Randall Munroe

#8. Sometimes, talking to Amber was like herding cats.

Lisa Wingate

#9. A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#10. Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost

Charles Hamilton Houston

#11. Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#12. When I want to be lectured on strategy, I'll consult someone who's actually won battles,' Amelie said. 'Not one who ran away from them.'
'Snap,' Eve said.
'You know what they're talking about?' Shane asked.
'Don't need to know to get that one. She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.

Rachel Caine

#13. Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#14. The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#15. Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#16. The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#17. The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#18. We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

Charles Hamilton Houston